Michael Walsh was born (1986) and raised in Ontario, Canada. As a child, he already knew that all he wanted to do was drawing. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Desing with a bachelor’s degree in illustration, he primarily worked in graphic design and advertising illustration. From 2011 on his own, Michael has drawn comic series. Thus he’s met with Ed Brisson, with whom he created his first published full-length comic series Comeback at Image comics in 2013. He then spearheaded the comic-book revival of the hit television show X-Files at IDW. During this time he also launched the series Zero at Image with the author Ales Knot.

Since 2014 Michael has been working with Marvel comics. His first work at the publisher was a 15 issue run on the hit Secret Avengers, still with Ales Knot. He followed that up with an original creation, the one-shot Hank Johnson : Agent of Hydra (2015). Far away from what we know from the Hydra agents, this one-shot shows us their everyday life, what they do when they’re not fighting against Captain America and the Avengers.

Michael Walsh is as comfortable drawing action scenes that he is with calm ones, as witness the mini-series X-Men : Worst X-Man Ever (2016), and an issue of the critically acclaimed series Vision. He is currently working on Rocket Raccoon & Groot, which proves that is drawing are sometimes humorous. Michael has brought his eye for design and innovation to numerous covers across the industry for publishers such as Valiant, Black Mask, Archie Comics and IDW. In 2016 he worked on the Hellboy : Winter Special at Dark Horse, and is currently writing and drawing his own stories for their anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

Unlike many of his fellow artists, Michael Walsh inks himself his drawings. Moreover, he uses it for the background of some layouts, which strengthens the expressionism and the power of his drawings. He plays with exacerbated expressions, on light and shadows to dynamise his compositions. The colors are often applied by Matthew Wilson, whom Michael thinks of as one of the best colorist there is.